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Privacy Policy

Dublin Institute of Technology Website Privacy & Cookie Statement

This statement relates to the main website of Dublin Institute of Technology (DIT), www.dit.ie. Within the DIT domain you may find links to other websites for which the Institute does not have editorial responsibility or control, including the websites of student organisations and societies. While DIT encourages compliance with this web privacy statement at such sites, we ask visitors to consult the privacy statement of individual sites or contact the persons responsible for those sites, in order to understand the policies and practices under which they operate.

Collection and use of personal information

Dublin Institute of Technology (DIT) fully respects the rights of users of our website and is committed to protecting your privacy rights. DIT will not collect any personal information (personal data) about you on this website without your permission and any information which you volunteer to DIT will be treated with the highest standards of security and confidentiality and processed in accordance with the Data Protection Act 1988 and Data Protection (Amendment) Act 2003.

Cookies and collection and use of technical information

Information on internet traffic is collected routinely DIT and by its service providers (eg, HEAnet). This technical information is used to ensure the smooth running of the DIT computer network and for statistical or administrative purposes. It is not used to gather identifiable personal information on individual website visitors, except in so far as this is permitted by law and may be necessary in order to prevent or detect problems or offences in relation to the operation of the website.

This information may be used for the purposes of evaluating your use of the DIT website and to improve our website service to you. It is stored and used in the aggregate only and is not used to obtain personal data or to contact you personally.

What are cookies?

A cookie is a small text file that a website can store on your computer to help keep track of different things, like if you want to stay logged into a website, or your preferences within a website. They are widely used in order to make websites work, or work more efficiently, as well as to provide information to the owners of the site. Cookies may be persistent, they may expire after some predefined period of time, or they may expire at a given date in the future. When a user visits the same website again, the browser may send cookies back to that website allowing the website to recognise the user and remember things like their personalised details or preferences.

A website may use a third party advertising network to deliver targeted advertising on their website, which may also have the capability to track your browsing activity across different sites. This website does not use this type of cookie.

Session cookies

Session cookies are stored temporarily during a browsing session and are deleted from the user’s device when the browser is closed.

Persistent cookies

This type of cookie is saved on your computer for a fixed period and is not deleted when the browser is closed.

How cookies are being used

DIT uses cookies to help improve your experience on our site and to help us understand what content is most useful to our visitors

DIT cookies are used only by DIT related systems.

Certain cookies are essential to the proper functioning of DIT systems.

We use analytics cookies to help us understand what content is most useful to our visitors.

Cookies are not used by this website to store any personal information.

We use some session cookies to make navigation through the website smoother. These are automatically deleted after you close your web browser

We use persistent cookies when we need to manage return visits. For example, we use this type of cookie to know how many repeat visits the site receives compared with new visits.

IP addresses are read by the website to identify users located on the DIT campus in order to offer them internal functionality.

Types of cookies we use

Security: These cookies allow us to secure access to your account, and to allow you to move between DIT systems without additional authentication.

Google Analytics (_utma, _utmb, _utmc, _utmz): These cookies are used to collect information about how visitors use our site. We use the information to compile reports and to help us improve the site. The cookies collect information in an anonymous form, including the number of visitors to the site, where visitors have come to the site from and the pages they visited. More Information

Our site, like most websites, includes functionality provided by third parties. A common example is an embedded YouTube video or an embedded google map

For example when you visit a page with content embedded from, Google, Twitter, YouTube or Facebook, these service providers may set their own cookies on your web browser. For example, Facebook sets cookies via our website if you ‘like’ one of the posts on our site and twitter sets cookies via our website if you “tweet” one of the posts on our site.

If you don’t want to receive cookies, you can modify your browser settings so that it notifies you when cookies are sent to it or you can refuse cookies altogether. You can also delete cookies that have already been set.

If you wish to restrict or block the web browser cookies set on your device, you can do this through your browser’s Help function.

Please note that should you decide to disable cookies within your browser, some of the functionality of www.dit.ie may be impaired.

Your Rights

Pursuant to the Data Protection Acts 1988 and 2003, you have a right to obtain a copy of the data held about you for a fee. Also, if incorrect information is held about you, you have a right to request that this information is amended or erased. Further information on your rights under the Data Protection legislation is available at http://www.dit.ie/recordsmanagement/dataprotection/.

This statement should not be construed as a contractual undertaking. The Institute reserves the right to review and amend this statement at any time without notice and you should therefore re-visit this webpage from time to time.

Any queries or concerns you may have about the processing of personal information on this website should be addressed to: